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The Campbell Inn, Roscoe NY - A Documentary (2015 Rough Draft Version 1)
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- Опубликовано: 28 мар 2015
- Story and history of the century plus old Catskills area hotel in Roscoe New York. Video and current images captured in 2014. Narrative is my own voice. The music portion is from the RUclips Audio Library: "Dawning of a New Day" by Mike Andrews.
Hello, thanks for the trip down memory lane. I was a waitress at the Campbell Inn during the summer of 1973. I had just finished my freshman year in college and this was my summer job. I remember Shirley and Edgar, the cooks, the guests like it was yesterday. The baker was Polish and made wonderful desserts but he was always misspelling the names on the daily menu. Lol he would list egg layers and all my tables would ask “ what are egg layers?” . They were eclairs! Lol. The guests were mostly elderly and from the NYC metropolitan area. We had quite a few Polish Jews as I remember and a few families with younger children. It was a delightful time and as staff we were allowed to go to the clubhouse in the evenings and listen to the music and order food. The girls slept above the kitchen and our rooms were god awful hot that summer. My friend Jeff, the dishwasher, showed me how to sneak through a back way into the main inn upstairs to take showers as our bathroom was pretty bad. The male staff had separate sleeping quarters upstairs in an outbuilding and one night we girls were upstairs hanging out with the boys and Shirley came up there and gave us what for for being there. It was strictly forbidden for girls and boys to visit each other’s sleeping quarters according to Campbell Inn rules. I mean I lived in a coed dorm in college and didn’t see the problem but you know Shirley and Edgar Wood were old school. Lol. We would have one day off a week on Sunday and Howie the busboy had a car. So we would pile into it and go to a swimming hole at Cooks Falls on the Beaverkill River. Then we would go to the Antrim Inn in Roscoe and hang out for the night. Fun times!
What a great memory! I've had the next version on my to-do list for years and have some more video and photos. I want to include some of the memories people have shared. If you have any memorabilia or photos, I'd love to see them. I know in the 70's, we weren't walking around with smart phones with cameras so photos from this period are often rare. Feel free to reach out, I'm at chris@drakkar91.com
I'd like to thank you for bringing back all of my fond memories. I vacationed there every summer for nearly 15 years before it was officially closed. I grew up there, made lifelong friends there
and felt it was the most magical place on earth. I still feel pangs of grief each spring, remembering that I dont have Campbell Inn to look forward to in the summertime.
Thanks for the stroll down memory lane!
+blondinka2229 Wow! Were you in Campbell in in 1994? That time my father worked there as musician.
@@studiocatz4216 Who was your Dad?
GREAT VIDEO...GREAT PLACE...GREATER TIME BACK THEN,,,,THANK YOU,,,SAD,,
Interesting! I just bought an antique advertising collection and it contained a porcelain souvenir SHOE, w a picture of the Campbell Inn, along with Roscoe NY printed on the top!
WoW what a beautiful video you made here! My friend and I explored/photographed the Inn this last weekend and found it quite a beautiful piece of property despite the Inn falling in great disrepair !!! I love the comments etc on here from people that had made this Inn part of history....
Thanks Tom. I have some more video and photos (all exterior), so I really need to do an update! I'd love to hear about your exploration (and of course see any photos). We're you able to get inside? I was last there in the summer of 2020 and it appeared someone was living on site. Feel free to contact me (chris@drakkar91.com).
I used to spend summers here in the mid - late 90’s and this video made the really nostalgic. I actually went back there to explore about 7 years ago. My childhood memories came rushing back. Thank you for this video!
Thanks for making producing this. My friends and I found this quite nostalgic. Worked there during the summers as teenagers in 86-88 under Boris. Lots of memories and friends made. THANKS.
You are welcome. It was amazing to learn about the history of this grand place. And so happy to see it can still bring back memories for so many people.
Back in 1995 my father purchased some property just below the inn he was quite the fly fisherman. After his passing we held onto the property until 2015. My family and I have fond memories of hiking through the inns property. Thank you for bringing back our past.
You're most welcome!
Beautiful Brother, Roscoe is a special place to me. My father used to take me hunting every October around my birthday all my uncles and cousin would go. It was probably the greatest times of my life. Will never be forgotten. Thanks Dad.
Spent time in Swan lake caring for a friend. Loved walking in the quiet.
Loved the video, the photos, and the viewers' comments. My grandmother went here for a couple of summers in the 1950s, when I was too young to understand why anyone would want to live in the country with all the heat and humidity. She seemed to enjoy it, anyway. I do recall my father claiming Rocky Marciano's mother stayed there (he was heavyweight champ then), but that could have been a some kind of private joke he had with his mother.
I remember vacationing at the Campbell Inn in 1971 with my family. It was the most splendid memory of my youth. They sent me to a broken down summer camp not far away to keep me away from the old folks. That was great fun too. All the kids there were singing the "halo mudder halo fadder." blues. But it was heaven for me. Does anyone remember the camp they sent the kids to?
I grew up in Roscoe. We had our annual Spring Sports Banquets here. It was such fun and most of the Roscoe youth attended. I remember riding our bicycles up that blacktop road and coasting back down, and later on have memories of just taking walks up to the inn. Shirley Wood hired me to work the font desk one summer for about three weeks to fill in. It was one of my first jobs! I think I was about 15. She was such a character! Thanks for creating this film. I hope that someone can restore this place before it has to be torn down.
Thanks for this blast from the past. My family vacationed there every summer starting long before I was born, probably since the early 60s, and did so until Shirley sold out. My grandparents (from the Bronx) kept a cottage there (that smaller building off to the right of the Inn) and my family (parents + two older siblings) would go up for a week each summer. What I remember about the end of our time at the Campbell Inn was the influx of Russian families. I don't mean this to be disparaging, as I was just a tween/teenager and would have had no opinion either way (in fact, my last summer I befriended a kid my age named Yuri, and we palled around all week). But my recollection (and I suppose the way I overheard the grownups talking about it) was that the "regulars", like my grandparents and the hundreds of other families that frequented the Campbell Inn each summer, were extremely put off by a sort of "invasion" by an increasingly large clique of "outsiders". Sort of a "there goes the neighborhood" dynamic. Probably not too different than the anti-outsider Brexit sentiment over in the UK these days, unfortunately. Soon many of the regulars stopped going there because of "those Russians", which as I understand it, was what led poor Shirley Wood (the first lesbian I ever heard of, though I think the word back then was a bit less PC) to bail out and sell to the Russians. (Again, I'm just reporting on the sentiment I remember, not expressing a personal opinion.) I even vividly remember playing with Yuri in some sort of lobby, maybe near the dining room? - on some sort of circular couch - and us leaping off of it, which annoyed some of the octogenarian regulars who barked at us, "damn Russians!" Weird that I remember that rebuke so clearly, it probably happened about 35 years ago. I remember fishing for perch in the lake, and swimming in the pool with my mom (who like many of the women in the pool wore one of those rubber flower-covered swim caps, if you can picture it). I also remember shooting my dad's .22 in the woods with him and my older brother at old bottles and cans we'd pick up on the trail. A great family memory was my grandfather dancing on the front porch, under the enormous bug zapper, in my older sister's clogs. He was such a clown. My older brother also used to take me walking down the driveway path to collect orange newts, which I'd sometimes take back to CT to keep in a terrarium. It's of course extremely sad to see this icon of upstate NY (and of my childhood) go to seed, but in a way, I'd rather see it slowly succumb to the elements and the foliage than see bulldozers and cranes in there wiping out all trace. One more funny story: when I was in NYC after college, I made a friend pretty early on - an amazing singer who I saw perform at an East Village cafe one night and thereafter went to all of her gigs until we became friends. About 10 years later, we were having some random conversation and I made some offhand comment about spending summers in Roscoe, NY. She said "My family also used to spend summers in Roscoe!" Short version, her family vacationed at the Campbell Inn at the same time my family did, and apparently her grandparents and my grandparents were BEST FRIENDS back in the 1970s. She said that somewhere in a shoebox in her parents house was a photo of her with my grandparents, one weekend when they watched after her. Such a small world.
Dan G. Did Yuri’s mom work there as a house keeper ?
SAD ....THOSE DAYS WERE WAY BETTER THEN THIS MESS WE HAVE WORLD WIDE WITH FAKE VIRUS
Received my first varsity jacket here in 1976 at a Roscoe Central school “Sportsmen’s Banquet”. Magical evenings.
Good job making this. Very interesting. Such a nice area that seems forgotten.
Thanks for the video of the Campbell Inn. I grew up in the area, and my last name is Campbell, but no relation to the Campbell Inn. I remember as a kid, you used to be able to see the hotel before the trees grew big enough to hide it. My dad never drove up to the hotel, so I never saw it close up. Here in 2023 I wonder if the building still stands. I see someone had mowed the lawn in the video. Many of the big hotels in the Catskills were destroyed by fire. Don't know if it was vandals or someone who just started fires on purpose. I know of no hotels left now. I used to ride the Short Line bus to NYC and back to Roscoe about once a month going to college in NYC.
I was last there in 2020 and have a little more film but I didn't get that close. Someone is occupying the building but it's definitely not in business. I need to make an update. Last I knew it's still standing and it's a mystery who is there (if anyone now). Wish I had money to burn, I'd buy it and bring it back to life.
So every once in a while I think back to the week I spent with my family at Campbell Inn in, I think, 1962, as a 7-year old. That's how I found this video. We had a neighbor in our apt bldg whose family went up every summer, so we went with them one time. I'm amazed this place is still standing. My memories of this place are very limited, but I never thought of it as a DIrty Dancing-style place, and I was there right in that era. It was older and less ethnic (Jewish or Italian) than the DD-style place you see in the movie. It was so old that the claw-footed bathtub creeped me out and I refused to get in and take a bath that whole week. The place had that old, musty feel, compared to the newer hotels and ones that had been updated for that period. The pool was as you see on the postcard - pretty good. I remember the old biddies sitting in rocking chairs on that big veranda. The guest clientele skewed on the older side, as I recall. They probably had been loyal customers for many years at that point. There was a drawing room with a piano. Being the precocious kid I was, I sat down one afternoon to play and remember being physically removed from the stool by, I think, Shirley Wood, whose guests wanted peace and quiet. Being older now, I can understand and appreciate that. They did have some live entertainment, but it was not glitzy as I recall. Thanks for making the video - there's some, but not enough, stuff on RUclips about the various Catskills hotels.
Thanks
I love the Catskills!!!
Hope someone steps up and restores this
Hope it gets renovated. Great place for family vacation.
I used to live up in New York.A lot of places are unforgettable .A part of history that you really can’t forget.There’s places up in ulster county Also green county all the way up to Hunter Mountain tons of places abandon like this what a shame🤔 history
My pops my uncle and cousin. Went to Roscoe every October we would go camping every year. Will never forget that place
what wonderful find! You are correct, 2008 was the last year it was operational. It closed on Labor Day weekend that year. I was there nearly every Summer from 1996 to 2008 and Summers haven't been the same since it closed. Though it may have been way past its glory days by the time i experienced it, it truly was a wonderful, magical place.
Were you there in summer 1994 too?
Greg Scripter No, 1996 n after
In Summer 1996 Yakov Saperson and Simon Grinberg worked as musicians.
I spent my entire childhood at Campbell Inn, we were the original people after Shirley "sold out" to tyhe Russians. It was a magical place and I hope someone brings soul back into it. Thank you!
Larira, were you there in Summer 1994? If Yes, that guy who played keyboards at the entertainment - is my father.
Yes I was and my mother was the chef
Looks like I recall your mother, who was a chef there. I recall Arkadiy and Rita, Misha and Polina, their children Aaron and Daniel, other people, and bus boys (or waiters) on of them was my classmate. Nice if you recall our family.
Greg Scripter I remember the little boys ! Daniel was the older and Aronchik was the baby!
Sure, I remember Aronchik even before he underwent asphering (first haircut, Jewish tradition) and do you remember the "boy" who writes these lines? My father worked as musician there, and I've visited three times.
Stayed June 1979 much different then. Harry darbee and art lee good people to meet.
I used to stay there every summer with my mother around from 1993 till 1997 when it was a Russian owned and ran by Tamara a wonderful Russian women I have many wonderful childhood memories its was all Russians there as am I , I am lookiing to go back and recapture my childhood memories , take some pictures, of the ruins that are left , how many times I swam in that pool , and danced the night away in the little club to the left of where you go down to the pool , and the TV room downstairs , in the attic the waiters and waitresses usually hung out , when I got a bit older I used to sneek up there to hang out with them and smoke and drink
I saw Cab Calloway there in 1966.
I was there too
Thanks I've always seen the sign and wondered about it.
Thank you for the video! My family and I spent parts of the summers there from the mid to late 1950s, and I have very fond memories of the place. I was a little kid at the time. Shirley and her brother Edgar were always very nice to me; the last time I saw them was actually in 1967 when my college roommate and I stopped there on the way from NYC to Ithaca. Shirley remembered me and had us stay for lunch! You mentioned someone named Robert Schwartz in your video--well, that's my name, too. I always got upset when "Robert Schwartz" got paged for a telephone call and then was told is wasn't for me (I was about seven years old), but for the "older" Robert Schwartz. What a great connection that would be if the RS mentioned in your video was one and the same!
As of me, this video is a great finding. Campbell Inn was a destination of my first trip to Upstate New York, which I ever made. It was back in summer 1994. That time it was owned by one family of Russian Immigrants, and yes, his name was Boris. That time, the most of people who came there for a vacation were Russian immigrants. To be short - the place is majestic. I also liked its elevation, since the road - leaving from the hotel to the Roscoe Village - is very reminiscent of some place where my relatives in St Petersburg had their Bungalo. By the way - the road was paved that time.
Greg Scripter I agree - it is incredibly majestic! It still has such an amazing and strong spirit.
Great documentary
Unfortunately in America we have little regard for many of our historical buildings. We prefer to tear them down to replace with new.
NY Ontario & Western Railway, not Railroad. The west bound lanes of NY 17 sit on top of the site where the O&W's Roscoe station stood.
if you search for Campbell Inn in youtube, you will find two vids named Campbell Inn.
They were recorded both in 2007. How do you think, were they taken in this Campbell Inn?
Greg Scripter I found them and indeed that looks like the front porch. It's possible those kids were either guests, or maybe family / friends visiting the owners? That's a mystery!
Since I've spent some time there I have a few questions for you:
1) The film "dirty dancing" was taken at Campbell Inn hotel. Right?
2)Since you've seen a fence in front of the driveway - I can infer that Campbell Inn is NOT IN USE, however its owned by someone like real estate, Right?
3)Can it be bought again and become a working resort?
Visiting Roscoe, I've also stopped at Railway museum, and felt myself very petty that such a great railway was destroyed. I am a railfan, and it would be much more fun to get there by trains, then by cars. So petty, that that they destroyed another way to Buffalo, which could alleviate the Empire State Corridor .
4) Is there a change that Campbell Inn is in a register of National Historic Landmarks?
Greg Scripter Hi Greg. I also sent you a message via Google Plus. The film Dirty Dancing was filmed in NC and VA, but was based on the famous Catskill summer resorts like the Campbell Inn. All indications (plus emails I have since received) indicate it closed for the last time in 2008, but I think it was on again / off again in years prior. The gate is locked, and even if it was open the drive up the old path would be dangerous (in my estimate). It IS FOR SALE and would take a lot of money to restore. Email me privately and I can share more details. I don't think it is protected as a historic landmark and there any many reasons for the demise of these grand hotels.
lol i worked as a waitor the final 2 seasons here, and visited every summer since i was a child, bte it closed in 2008, and now my father and a few other hunters rent it from the current owners ti hunt their, i still visit often
Did Dmitriy Granik and Alex Meyer work with you?
Hi Matt - Do you happen to have any contacts of the current owner, or is it still open now? You can also message me directly, chris@drakkar91.com. I'd love to go back and also tour the inside. If I had the money, I'd buy it and save it!
Great video, thank you for posting. I have been fly fishing the area since '94 and have always seen the sign, but never went up the road to see the property.
Who does one speak to for permission to access the sight? I would love take the girlfriend up there for some pics. Thanks!
@drakkar91
I feel lucky that I got to spend time there in June 1994 when about 50 Russian students stayed there during their visit to the U.S. Some of them attended Roscoe Central High School for a few days. The locals didn't know how to handle that many Russians it was like the movie Red Dawn minus the AK-47's. I had some good times there and met a lot of interesting kids. Best part is I remember watching the OJ Simpson car chase on live TV while at the Inn. Thanks for posting hope it survives another 100 years.
ARIZONA KING Thank you for sharing that wonderful memory!
ARIZONA KING 1994, WOW! My father worked there as a musician, on keyboards. That's why I came there three times. He told us about Russian students, but the first time I came there - they already left Campbell Inn. I also had my classmate Alex working there as a waiter or a bus boy.
Greg Scripter It was definitely an interesting time in 1994. The cold war attitudes were still around especially in a rural community, but meeting all those kids made you realize we were all humans and enjoyed similar activities, music, etc.... Funny how 21 years later we are heading right back into a similar situation with Russia.
I find it funny that growing up in Roscoe we all knew the Campbell Inn was there, but it was never open to the public during that time. Then the Russian students invaded the town. I'm serious when I say the locals and local store owners FREAKED out when they all came walking through the town to explore. Makes me laugh thinking about it. I remember walking down that long driveway from the Inn at night I couldn't see anything it was so dark. The kids had a few "disco" parties at the Inn during their visit. Once the kids left, the town returned to normal and I don't recall hearing anything about the Inn until my mom went to a garage sale the Russian owners or caretakers had at the Inn. She bought some hand painted Russian style eggs and some jewelry. The sale was probably in 1995.
ARIZONA KING What a remarkable story - thanks you so much. I am so happy you found this video and it brings back a wonderful memory. It was a fascinating visit for me seeing the Inn from the outside, but so sad to see it in the condition it stands today. I can imagine that was an amazing time for you, and what a story for the locals (it still feels like a VERY small town). I hope one day we "the people" can get beyond our governments since what you say is so true. Of course if you have any photographs, those would be amazing to see. Thank you, chris@drakkar91.com
Too bad you couldn't get inside to show the inside
5:27 - AFAIK it was a concert hall (ballroom) in 1994, while owned by Boris.
It’s a shame that Roscoe is going downhill because of the mayor, the drugs, the illegal immigrants, and the kids trashing the town with graffiti and throwing trash all over the place.
Its a podunk dump now.